In all of my life, from a child until now, I have always noticed that there are two types of successful people. There are those people who get successful to the success of everyone around them, and those that get successful to the detriment of everyone around them. The question therein lies, do you climb over the bodies to get to where you want to go, or do you try and build everyone up around you and hope that someone notices…

I believe strongly in the latter – in my opinion, what’s the point of being successful if you don’t get to share it with anyone. You need people to high five on the way up because they’re the people that will help you when things aren’t going so well. When you’ve climbed over bodies to get to the top, the way down is usually not so friendly – people will welcome your demise.

The fact of the matter is, if you do something great and don’t tell people, quite often someone else will take credit for it. If credit is available, it will get taken. This is how people can get up to the detriment of those around them. I am very vocal about my wins, and I am very vocal about the wins of the people in my team. It gives me as much satisfaction to brag about a colleague’s success as it does to brag about my own. That’s the whole idea of a team, isn’t it?

I guess the point of this entry was that you should always celebrate successes, and create a culture of celebrating them. This should help stir on more wins. People who climb over the bodies on the path to success are often known for it within an organisation or a university – I reckon this is where the saying ‘it gets pretty lonely at the top’ must come from. When I get to the top I want all of my colleagues there with me… Then we can have an awesome party!